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PRONUNCIATION OF AIR SHAFT

air shaft play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AIR SHAFT

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Air shaft is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AIR SHAFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of air shaft in the English dictionary

The definition of air shaft in the dictionary is a shaft for ventilation, esp in a mine or tunnel.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AIR SHAFT

air quality
air rage
air raid
air rifle
air sac
air scoop
Air Scout
air shot
air shuttle
air sign
air sock
air spray
air spring
air station
air steward
air stewardess
air strike
air support
air surfing
air suspension

WORDS THAT END LIKE AIR SHAFT

airshaft
balance shaft
camshaft
countershaft
crankshaft
drive shaft
elevator shaft
gesellschaft
get the shaft
idler shaft
jackshaft
layshaft
lift shaft
mineshaft
overhead camshaft
propeller shaft
rockshaft
shaft
transmission shaft
turboshaft
ventilation shaft

Synonyms and antonyms of air shaft in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «air shaft» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AIR SHAFT

Find out the translation of air shaft to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of air shaft from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «air shaft» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

风井
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

eje de aire
570 millions of speakers

English

air shaft
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हवा शाफ्ट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رمح الهواء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

воздух вал
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

o eixo de ar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বায়ু বাণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arbre de l´air
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aci udara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Luftschacht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エアシャフト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에어 샤프트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Batang udara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trục không khí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காற்று தண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हवा पन्हाळे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hava şaftı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cavedio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wał powietrza
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

повітря вал
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ax aer
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άξονα του αέρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lug steel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

luft skaft
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

luft skaft
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of air shaft

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AIR SHAFT»

The term «air shaft» is normally little used and occupies the 113.988 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AIR SHAFT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about air shaft

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIR SHAFT»

Discover the use of air shaft in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to air shaft and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance
And, by focusing reformist energies on architectural concerns, they displaced attention from the structural causes of misery and scarcity. From sociological and public policy perspectives, the air shaft has been since its deployment a symbol of ...
Shane Vogel, 2009
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Mine Ventilation: Proceedings of the 10th US / North ...
The third possibility, explored was to change the shaft functions by lengthening the dead shaft discussed before, and using it as a fresh-air shaft, turning the old exhaust shaft to a fresh-air shaft, too, and changing both current fresh-air shafts to  ...
S. Bandopadhyay, R. Ganguli, 2004
3
The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's
As late as 1940, Harlem still occupied a tender spot in the Duke's memory, as he explained in a vivid commentary on "Harlem Air Shaft": You get the full essence of Harlem in an air shaft. You hear fights, you smell dinner, you hear people ...
Arnold Shaw, 1987
4
Modern American Coal Mining: Methods and Applications
One of the intake air shafts constructed was a 670-ft-deep, shaft equipped with a personnel hoist and the two-compartment, 32-ft-diameter other intake air shaft was a single-compartment, 700-ft-deep, single-compartment, 10.5-ft-diameter shaft ...
Bise, Christopher J., 2013
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11th US/North American Mine Ventilation Symposium 2006: ...
The fresh air shaft ivnl was functioning well. The amount of fresh air arriving to the level +700 m was about 40m3/s. On the other hand, the fresh air shaft ivn2 had some problems. Three of the shaft fans were not functioning, and there was a ...
Jan M. Mutmansky, Raja. V. Ramani, 2006
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The Architectural Magazine
The warm air passes off from the ceiling by corresponding perforations to those below, and is collected in a horizontal chamber, whence it descends by a vertical shaft to the furnace placed at the bottom of the air-shaft, which is built like the ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1837
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The Architectural Magazine, and Journal of Improvement in ...
The warm air passes off from the ceiling by corresponding perforations to those below, and is collected in a horizontal chamber, whence it descends by a vertical shaft to the furnace placed at the bottom of the air-shaft, which is built like the ...
John Claudius Loudon, 1837
8
Design and Protocol for Monitoring Indoor Air Quality
The two south grilles are located close to the air shaft and usually next to each other, leading to questions as to why two grilles were installed. In some cases, the second south grille is ducted to a location some distance away from the shaft.
Niren Laxmichand Nagda, Jerome P. Harper, 1989
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Frontiers of Energy and Environmental Engineering
At the same time it informs the majority wellbore rupture occurred in the summer in our country. Finally, for example, it specifically solves the temperature stress of the air shaft sidewall in Anhui coal mines. The research results of this article ...
Wen-Pei Sung, Jimmy C.M. Kao, Ran Chen, 2012
10
Mining Science and Technology 1996
4.4.2 The piercing period of main shaft, auxiliary shaft and air shaft During the piercing period, since the intaking air and returning air systems have not yet been formed; the distance of the single roadway driving is long. Ventilation is not good,  ...
T.S. Golosinski, Guo Yuguang, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AIR SHAFT»

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1
Mining death under investigation from state and federal agencies
Preliminary information indicates the injuries occurred with some type of air shaft/mine coming down on him, the coroner's office said. Kelly died ... «Uniontown Herald Standard, Jun 15»
2
Pa. man killed in coal mining accident, coroner says
The coroner's office said preliminary information indicates that he was injured by "some type of air shaft/mine door coming down upon him.". «PennLive.com, Jun 15»
3
W.Va. miner killed in Pennsylvania accident; autopsy pending
The coroner's office said preliminary information indicates that he was injured by “some type of air shaft/mine door coming down upon him.”. «Charleston Gazette, Jun 15»
4
Preston County Man Dead After Mine Accident
The coroner's office said preliminary information indicates that he was injured by "some type of air shaft/mine door coming down upon him." ... «WBOY-TV, Jun 15»
5
Concrete jungle: Hackney's pirate DJs resist rooftop station crackdown
“How is Ofcom going to get a transmitter out that is 20 foot down an air shaft? They can't, which is why they have started giving up.” The solution ... «Hackney Citizen, Jun 15»
6
Going with the flow
The Greater Pittston Historical Society will be providing informative signage for the tour at the actual break-in and Eagle Air shaft locations as ... «The Sunday Dispatch, Jun 15»
7
A TRAGEDY FROM BELOW
Most of the men made it out due to some heroic measures of the miners to climb out of an air shaft, but 12 never did. Best said the corrupt Knox ... «The Sunday Dispatch, Jun 15»
8
Plan B For Iran
... the “Death Star problem” facing any bunker-builder, a reference to the air shaft that allowed Luke Skywalker to destroy Darth Vader's massive ... «Politico, Jun 15»
9
Woman Survives Fall Off Bed-Stuy Roof Into Pile Of Glass
A 24-year-old Bed-Stuy woman fell four floors from the roof of her apartment building down a 6-foot-wide air shaft last night, and survived. «Gothamist, Jun 15»
10
Writing Persuasive Web Copy (No Jedi Mind Tricks Required)
Imagine what would have happened, then, if, instead of throwing himself down Cloud City's air shaft in a final act of defiant heroics, Luke had ... «Business 2 Community, Jun 15»

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